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Meet Dimitri Storm's fake ID

James Prouty Rollston would like people to know that he is not Dimitri Storm.

SOURCE: KSBW

Meet Dimitri Storm's fake ID

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Updated: 12:53 AM PDT May 12, 2013

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —

A 40-day manhunt for suspected serial car thief Dimitri Storm ended this week when Berkeley police officers wrestled him into a handcuffs.

Berkeley Police Department officers were not sure who Storm was when they were arresting him, and the 42-year-old man with blond hair and blue eyes told the officers that his name was James Prouty Rollston.

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The real James Prouty Rollston was one of Storm's alleged victims, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Deputy April Skalland said. On April 9, Rollston's car was unlocked outside his house in Boulder Creek when Storm allegedly stole Rollston's suit and wallet out of the car.

On Tuesday, Storm was booked into the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County under the fake Rollston name, and it took investigators until Thursday morning to figure out that he was actually Storm -- the most-wanted man in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Rollston works for the Pebble Beach Company as a sommelier, meaning, he's a professional wine steward. Once word got out about Storm's arrest and impersonation, Rollston's boss and co-workers threw some good-natured jokes at him.

"Your middle name isn't Prouty, is it?" his boss inquired. "You know, I hope you're really not in jail in Berkeley."

Rollston called his mother to reassure her that he was not locked up.

In addition to impersonating people, Storm also goes by several alias, including "Dragon," "Wushen" and "Casey," Skalland said.

Investigators believe Storm stole or broke into vehicles in Sonoma, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Alameda counties. Rollston said, out of all of Storm's victims, he has no idea why Storm chose to impersonate him.

Berkeley police said they nabbed Storm at 4 a.m. Tuesday while he was attempting to break into several vehicles in the Berkeley Hills on Summit Road. He was spotted because a driver was sleeping inside one of the vehicles.

Storm was still locked in jail Friday on $2.3 million bail.

Alameda County charges (Berkeley):

Presenting a false identity to police officersObstruction of police officerBurglaryTheft